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J. GIBBONS.

OILER FOR GAR AXLES.

No. 311,071. Patented-Jan. 20, 1885.

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, OILER FOR GAR AXLES. No. 311,071. Patented Jan. 20, 1885.

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JOHN GIBBONS, or wear TROY, new YORK, ASSlGNOR TO THE MENEELY HARDWARE COMPANY,.OF SAME PLACE.

OILER FOR CAR -AXLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,071, dated January 20, 1885.

Appl cation filed June 18, 1884. (No model.)

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OI-IN GIBBONS, of the village of West Troy, county of Albany, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oilers for Oar-Axles, of

which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of devices which are used in connection with car-axles to supply lubricating material thereto; and the IO object and purpose of my invention is to improve that class of devices by making them more efficientin their operation, and to render them more economical in the use of lubricating material. 7

1 My invention consists, as will be more fully detailed hereinafter in connection with its illustration, in the combination of two separate oil-receptacles for each journal-box, each being constructed to contain oil, and provided with a wickholder and wick, and the two receptacles for oil and a wick connected at the bottom of each to the other by means of springs which force inwardly toward each other the tops of the receptacles, so as to keep the projecting wicks in contact with and against the intermediately-placed axle.

Accompanying this specification, to form a part of it, there are three plates of drawings containing five figures, illustrating my invention, with the same designation of its parts by letter-reference used in all of them.

Of these illustrations, Figure lshows a perspective of the two oil-receptacles, they being shown as spread apart against the force of the 3 5 springs which connect them at the bottom, their position when drawn in toward each other at the top being indicated by a dotted line. Fig. 2 shows a combined longitudinal section and side elevation of a car-axle box,

40 with my improved oiler applied thereto. Fig.

3 shows a crosssection of a car-axle box containing my invention. Fig. 4c shows as detached from the device one of my improved wick-holders, and Fig. 5 illustrates a detached 5 wick and wiok-holder.

The severalparts of the mechanism constituting my invention and the parts of a caraxle box with which it connects-are designated by letters of reference, and their function is described as follows:

The letters RR indicate two oil holders or toward each other the tops of the two receptacles or holders, as indicated by the dotted line cl. These holders or vessels are made to lit into the ordinary car-axle boxes for c0nvenience of application, although their form may be varied, provided the relative arrange- 6o ment and construction of the parts as to function are retained.

The letters 0 indicate wickopenings made in the vessels or receptacles, and theletters N indicate crossrecesses made in the two vessels in opposite positions, for the reception of the axle-collar. g

The letters H designate wick-holders, and WV wicks, that are supported in position by said wick-holders. These wick-holders consist of a plate that is curved to coincide with the concavity of the inner faces of the two vessels oppositely to where the said holders and wicks are placed.

The letters W designate wicks of which there is one for each vessel. The said wickholders are placed between two thicknesses of the wick by folding the latter centrally crosswise with the cut ends of the wick within the vessel and the fold-line of the wick on the projecting holder, with the latter passed through the opening 0. r

The letters a to designate openings in the vessels, for filling them with oil or lubricating material. The vessels or receptacles are designated at It, and they are each made of two parts or lobes, that onedesignated at D being designedby its form to occupy a position at the side of and below the axle, and that at D, being connected interiorly with the partD, is 0 made to subtend the outer end of the car-axle, the axle end subtension of the parts D of each vessel being directed inwardly and toward each other.

, The letters at designate covers that are piv- 9 5 oted to the tops of the vessels R, as indicated at p, and these covers are adapted to be moved around to close the openings a.

The letter I designates the journal-box; A, the bearing; 0, the axle-collar; J, the journalmo box cover; P, the pedestal; P, the pedestaljaw; K, the j ournal'bearing key, the said parts being the usual and ordinary parts used in connection with car-axle boxes.

The operation of my invention, as applied to the foregoing parts of an axle-box, is as follows: The oil vessels or receptacles being supplied with oil through the openings a. the wicks are placed on the wick-holders H, as shown at Fig. 5, and then inserted in the vessels through the openings 0, with the top of the wick-holders and wicks projecting therefrom, as shown at Fig. 1. The vessels are then inserted in the journal-box I, and put in the position shown at Figs. 2 and 3. Thus placed the wicks absorb oil and convey it by contact to the surface of the axle at each side as it revolves, and with which the wicks are kept in contact by the combined action of the springs S and the'wick-holders H. hen oil is put in'the journal-box proper, for distribution to the axles by means of wicks or waste, the oil is thrown about by the motion of the trucks, and is thus made to drip therefrom onto the track and surroundings, which is objectionable.

By using vessels to contain the oil for lubri eating the axle, with said vessels inserted with in thejournal-box, instead of employing the journal-box to contain the oil, the spilling and consequent dripping of the oil is prevented. Experience shows that asmall quantity of oil regularly applied answers as good a purpose for lubrication as a superfluity of it. Vhere the proper quantity of oil is used there is economy, and where a superfluity of it is employed thereis consequent waste; and to meet these better conditions of use is one of the ob jects of my invention.

Another useful feature of my invention is that it can be applied to the ordinary construction ofjournal-box, towhich no change of the surrounding parts is required, and it can be easily removed from the journal-box.

\Vhile I have shown and described a peculiar form of vessel for containing lubricating ma terial, I do not desire tolimit nyinvention to the precise form shown; but Ido limit it to a construction in which the same functions shall be produced by form and in relatively the same or substantially the same manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. The combinatiomwiththe j ournal-boX I, of the vessels R R, constructed with openings a and wick-openings O, and adapted to beinserted within said journal-box,substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In an oiler fora car-axle, the combination of the vessels It, adapted to be inserted within a car journal-boX, as shown, the springs S, connecting the said vessels, the wick-holders H, and the wicks V, the said parts being constructed and arranged to operate substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

8. In an oiler for a car-axle, the combination of the vessels R, made with the opposite recesses, N, the springs S S, connecting said vessels, the wick-holders H, and the wicks V, the said parts being constructed and arranged to operate substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

4. In an oiler for a car-axle, the combination of the vessels R, made with the anteriorlobe D, the posterior lobe D, and the wick-openings O, as shown and described.

5. The combination,with the journal-box I, of the vessels R, constructed with the openings a, covers d-, wiek-openings O, the springs S. the wick-holders H, made with the lips m, and the wicks XV, thesaid parts being constructed and arranged tooperate substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed at Troy, N. Y., this 2d day of June, 1884, and in the presence of the two witnesses whose names were by them hereto written.

JOHN GIBBONS.

W'itnesses:

STANLEY M. HOLDEN, CHARLES S. BRINTNALL. 

